It has been pouring down here all day with only a few short moments when it only drizzled. None of us have liked to be outside for more than just a few minutes, not even Malkolm who now seems to like going out in the rain. It has been fairly warm though so when we had a short nap I had the window open (and still have) in my bedroom and could hear birds singing in the rain singing from the open window and the sound of rain hitting the closed window on the other side of the cottage 🙂

I did bake bread today but I doubt that the dew mixed with so much rain water still had any powers, so I had to use tap water instead 🙂 🙂 I actually don’t mind it raining today because yesterday I planted all seedlings I still had in the mini greenhouse. Slugs had started to eat them so I thought it best to just plant them and hope for the best 🙂 Oddly enough neither the slugs nor the snails eat any of the peas, chard, Japanese kale or iceberg lettuce in the vegetable patch?! Something however is eating my beans and those were the one thing I really wanted to be successful this year 🙂 🙂 🙂

One of the more pleasant beings we have is the Källrå, hard to translate but she’s a water nymph that lives in spring lakes/tarns (Tjärn) , creeks.  The Källrå is the ruler of her own spring and if one gives her a sacrifice/ gift she can make the water heal any disease. She usually stays hidden though. The lake that once was just beside where my cottage now stands and now is a bog, is a spring lake,( they tried several times back in the days to empty it but it was always filled up again even though there was no rain, so there is still a small part of the lake way out in the bog), so who knows if there’s a Källrå at the little tjärn my dogs and I visit so often 🙂

Mostly they don’t mind if one takes a sip of water from the spring but in some places, called free springs, they demanded a sacrifice otherwise they would become sick or be struck by bad luck for quite some time. If one would collect water to bring home one should only do so in daylight because one could never know what could follow since most beings were outside when it was dark. If one would happen to see an unusually big frog or toad by the spring it would most likely be the Källrå, she rarely showed herself in her natural form. One could also sometimes be able to see ones future if looking at the reflections in the water but it was important to not look for too long because if one did she could steal the reflection and by doing so also ones soul. I really need to start collecting pieces of silver because that can really help while being outside in the nature 🙂 🙂

It is time to have a last cup of tea and perhaps a sandwich as well and perhaps look after things made of silver here at home, I think I have an old silver tea spoon somewhere 🙂

Have a great day!